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Subject: Re: Surface smoothing algorithms/sources ?
Keywords: surface smoothing, B-spline surfaces, bezier surfaces
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Date: 18 Feb 89 01:03:13 GMT
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Reply-To: rorick@frith.UUCP (Ken Rorick)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
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>In article <1050@tnoibbc.UUCP> marcel@tnoibbc.UUCP (Marcel Boender) writes:
>>I am looking for some algorithms and specially some source codes (preferably
>>in C) for creating B-spline surfaces.
>>I am also interested in bezier surfaces.
>>Can anyone supply me with references, algorithms and better yet source code(s).
>I am interested in  obtaining the same thing.  If anyone has any info 
>will you please let me know also? My E-mail bounced to Marcel so thats 
>why I am posting. 
>

I can't send you any source code that generates 3d surface patches but I can
give you the names of three good references:

	1) Rogers & Adams, Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics, 
	   MaGraw-Hill, New York, 1976.  (Good basics but 3d surface
	   mathematics is hard to follow.)

	2) Foley & Van Dam, Fundimentals of Interactive Computer Graphics, 
	   Addison-Wesley, Reading Massachusetts, 1982.

	3) Mortenson M.E., Geometric Modeling, John Wiley & Sons, 
	   New York, 1985. (Good explanation of surfaces and splines, picks
	   up where the other two leave off).

Good luck.